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Azur
properly Az’zur (he that assists)
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A Benjamite of Gibeon, and father of Hananiah the false prophet. (Jeremiah 28:1) Father of Jaazaniah, one of the princes of the people against whom Ezekiel was commanded to prophesy. (Ezekiel 11:1)
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Verses where Azur is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- Ezekiel 11:1
Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people.
- Jeremiah 28:1
In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
Scripture on Azur
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Entries that reference Azur
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Sources · Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
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